Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and narration in lesvos, one year after the eruption of the "Refugee Crisis"

Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
Volume 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 227-232

Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and narration in lesvos, one year after the eruption of the "Refugee Crisis" (Article)

Tyrikos-Ergas G.*

^a Durham University, United Kingdom

Abstract

During summer 2015 more than 500.000 refugees reached the shore of the island of Lesvos, Greece, seeking a safe passage to Europe. Refugees were travelling packed into plastic dinghies by smugglers. They all wore life-jackets that were discarded upon arrival. This article discusses the way these life-jackets were used both by locals and widely in Europe, through their materiality, as symbolic material of two distinct and conflicting representations of the refugees and the refugee issue. © 2016 Equinox Publishing Ltd.

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DOI: 10.1558/jca.32068

ISSN: 20513429

Original Language: English